General Knowledge Quiz 9

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A food web is more realistic than a food chain for showing the feeding relationship in ecosystems because:

Producers are usually eaten by many different consumers and most consumers are eaten by more than one predator

It compares the number of consumers to the number of microorganism in an eco-system

A food web explains why there are more producers than consumers

Food chain use only a small sampling of organisms

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Albedo is a measure of the percentage of light that is

Transferred to plants

Absorbed by an object.

Reflected by an object

Transmitted through the atmosphere

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Which of the following is not an abiotic factor?

Wind

Decomposer

Humidity

Temperature

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A species of plants or animal that is facing imminent extinction is said to be :

Endangered

Extinct

Special concern

Threatened

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The largest percentage of solar energy that penetrates the atmosphere of the Earth is used to:

Generate winds

Heat and evaporate water

Heat the atmosphere and the earth’s surface

Carry on photosynthesis

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Heterotrophs obtain energy from all of the following except:

Autotrophs

Herbivores

Solar radiation

None of the above

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Which of the following 2 organisms are producers?

Plants and consumers

Plants and phytoplankton

Consumers and herbivores

None of the above

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Consider this food chain Algae -> water fleas -> minnows -> trout à bear -> The minnows in this food chain are

Herbivores

Primary carnivores

Secondary carnivores

Top carnivores

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